Today Google announced the creation of Drive for Education. Drive for Education is a self-proclaimed " infinitely large, ultra-secure and entirely free bookbag for the 21st century."

If your school has Google Apps for Education, Drive for Education will be free. Accounts will now have unlimited storage. This means teachers and students can upload video, documents, etc and create as much as they want without having to worrying about the 30 MB mark. Drive for Education will also support individual files uploads up to 5 TB in size in the near future.

Google Apps Vault, previously a charged feature, will also free to all Google Apps for Education users by the end of the year. Enhanced auditing will also be a part of this upgrade. While I don't know quite what that means. I believe it gives Administrators the ability to see the activities of files within the Admin Console.

Once again Google surprises us and makes online cloud storage for students no hassle.

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Kurt is the third and fourth grade teacher at St. Lucas Lutheran School in Kewaskum, Wisconsin and has loved technology since 7th grade. Now in his 13th year at St. Lucas; Kurt is blessed to be the Director of Technology. As such the Lord has enabled him to lead St. Lucas into implementing a 21st Century Education Program which focuses on one to one computing. This program was featured in the West Bend Daily News.

Kurt is passionately consumed with integrating technology into the curriculum, sharing his love for technology with his students, assisting others with technology solutions that may help them move into the 21st century, and finding new ways to use technology with his students.This website and blog are meant to provide others with help and insight into a 21st Century Education.